5747.53
Apportionment of undivided local government fund of county under an alternative method or on a formula basis.

(1)
"City, located wholly or
partially in the county, with the greatest population" means the city, located
wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population residing in the
county; however, if the county budget commission on or before January 1, 1998,
adopted an alternative method of apportionment that was approved by the
legislative authority of the city, located partially in the county, with the
greatest population but not the greatest population residing in the county,
"city, located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population"
means the city, located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest
population whether residing in the county or not, if this alternative meaning
is adopted by action of the board of county commissioners and a majority of the
boards of township trustees and legislative authorities of municipal
corporations located wholly or partially in the county.

(2)
"Participating political subdivision"
means a municipal corporation or township that satisfies all of the following:

(b)
It is not the city,
located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population.

(c)
Undivided local government
fund moneys are apportioned to it under the county's alternative method or
formula of apportionment in the current calendar year.

(B)
In lieu of the method of
apportionment of the undivided local government fund of the county provided by
section 5747.51 of the Revised Code, the
county budget commission may provide for the apportionment of the fund under an
alternative method or on a formula basis as authorized by this section.

Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section,
the alternative method of apportionment shall have first been approved by all
of the following governmental units: the board of county commissioners; the
legislative authority of the city, located wholly or partially in the county,
with the greatest population; and a majority of the boards of township trustees
and legislative authorities of municipal corporations, located wholly or
partially in the county, excluding the legislative authority of the city,
located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population. In
granting or denying approval for an alternative method of apportionment, the
board of county commissioners, boards of township trustees, and legislative
authorities of municipal corporations shall act by motion. A motion to approve
shall be passed upon a majority vote of the members of a board of county
commissioners, board of township trustees, or legislative authority of a
municipal corporation, shall take effect immediately, and need not be
published.

Any alternative method of apportionment adopted and approved
under this division may be revised, amended, or repealed in the same manner as
it may be adopted and approved. If an alternative method of apportionment
adopted and approved under this division is repealed, the undivided local
government fund of the county shall be apportioned among the subdivisions
eligible to participate in the fund, commencing in the ensuing calendar year,
under the apportionment provided in section
5747.52 of the Revised Code,
unless the repeal occurs by operation of division (C) of this section or a new
method for apportionment of the fund is provided in the action of repeal.

(C)
This division applies
only in counties in which the city, located wholly or partially in the county,
with the greatest population has a population of twenty thousand or less and a
population that is less than fifteen per cent of the total population of the
county. In such a county, the legislative authorities or boards of township
trustees of two or more participating political subdivisions, which together
have a population residing in the county that is a majority of the total
population of the county, each may adopt a resolution to exclude the approval
otherwise required of the legislative authority of the city, located wholly or
partially in the county, with the greatest population. All of the resolutions
to exclude that approval shall be adopted not later than the first Monday of
August of the year preceding the calendar year in which distributions are to be
made under an alternative method of apportionment.

A motion granting or denying approval of an alternative method
of apportionment under this division shall be adopted by a majority vote of the
members of the board of county commissioners and by a majority vote of a
majority of the boards of township trustees and legislative authorities of the
municipal corporations located wholly or partially in the county, other than
the city, located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest
population, shall take effect immediately, and need not be published. The
alternative method of apportionment under this division shall be adopted and
approved annually, not later than the first Monday of August of the year
preceding the calendar year in which distributions are to be made under it. A
motion granting approval of an alternative method of apportionment under this
division repeals any existing alternative method of apportionment, effective
with distributions to be made from the fund in the ensuing calendar year. An
alternative method of apportionment under this division shall not be revised or
amended after the first Monday of August of the year preceding the calendar
year in which distributions are to be made under it.

(D)
In determining an alternative method of
apportionment authorized by this section, the county budget commission may
include in the method any factor considered to be appropriate and reliable, in
the sole discretion of the county budget commission.

(E)
The limitations set forth in section
5747.51 of the Revised Code,
stating the maximum amount that the county may receive from the undivided local
government fund and the minimum amount the townships in counties having a
population of less than one hundred thousand may receive from the fund, are
applicable to any alternative method of apportionment authorized under this
section.

(F)
On the basis of any
alternative method of apportionment adopted and approved as authorized by this
section, as certified by the auditor to the county treasurer, the county
treasurer shall make distribution of the money in the undivided local
government fund to each subdivision eligible to participate in the fund, and
the auditor, when the amount of those shares is in the custody of the treasurer
in the amounts so computed to be due the respective subdivisions, shall at the
same time certify to the tax commissioner the percentage share of the county as
a subdivision. All money received into the treasury of a subdivision from the
undivided local government fund in a county treasury shall be paid into the
general fund and used for the current operating expenses of the subdivision. If
a municipal corporation maintains a municipal university, the university, when
the board of trustees so requests the legislative authority of the municipal
corporation, shall participate in the money apportioned to the municipal
corporation from the total local government fund, however created and
constituted, in the amount requested by the board of trustees, provided that
amount does not exceed nine per cent of the total amount paid to the municipal
corporation.

(G)
The actions of
the county budget commission taken pursuant to this section are final and may
not be appealed to the board of tax appeals, except on the issues of abuse of
discretion and failure to comply with the formula.